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Is there any way to get nicely printed OneNote pages on paper and printing PDF's if I follow certain conventions in OneNote?

Anonymous
2024-03-23T16:20:11+00:00

I am planning to build a 200-300 page document that will be my lecture notes for an upper-level math course. I will be using a digital pen on either an IPAD or TouchScreen computer like a Surface computer and writing the notes like I am working on a Whiteboard. I was hoping to use OneNote but I need for any range of pages(like for example pages 22 through 27 of the Notebook) to print both to a paper printer and to a PDF document. It is very important that nothing gets cut off and I need to not have many weird printing artifacts. I have noted many posts about OneNote printing not working well and I printed a OneNote notebook that I built during the pandemic and I got a messed up document. Is there any way to get nicely printed notebook pages and PDF documents if I follow certain conventions in OneNote? I was hoping to use OneNote instead of just getting a dedicated app. If there is a set of rules that would get the job done, I believe that I could follow the rules carefully.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-23T23:54:04+00:00

    Most of the time I will only be writing my notes by hand on a touchscreen in the same way that I would have done it with colored chalk using a chalkboard 40 years ago( yes I am that old). Your idea of using WORD might work for me if WORD will keep track of the pages and do the printing to paper and PDF. Thank you both for the interesting idea. I will check it out by building a handwritten trial document in WORD. (I did not think of WORD since I usually never use WORD, since it is much easier for me to typeset my exams and other typed documents in LaTex and I have fantastic control of spacing when I use LaTex. )

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-23T20:00:46+00:00

    Agree with Bernd P.

    I will add: OneNote was designed for taking notes; it's not best for creating complex documents. Use OneNote to capture your ideas - it's great for that - and organize them. Then bring them to Word, which has a pretty respectable Draw menu.

    Best wishes for your project.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-23T18:30:08+00:00

    An honest answer is NO.

    OneNote has been designed for a paperless world.

    And Microsoft is obviously of the opinion that glitter pens are more important than printing 😋

    Bernd

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